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Caedmon's Hymn
By Caedmon (c. 657-681)

Caedmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery
of Streonaeshalch (657-681). Originally ignorant of the art of song,
Caedmon learned to compose one night in the course of a dream.
Caedmon's only known surviving work is Caedmon's Hymn, the nine-line
alliterative vernacular praise poem in honour of the Christian god he
supposedly learned to sing in his initial dream. The poem is one of the
earliest attested examples of Old English and is one of three candidates for
the earliest attested example of Old English poetry. It is also one of the
earliest recorded examples of sustained poetry in a Germanic language.
(Summary from wikipedia)

Read by Kara Shallenberg; total running time: 00:01:39.

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